Déjà-Vu
I. THE DISTORTION OF PREVIOUSLY GLIMPSED MOMENTS
How to Use Time Flexibly
Within the space of a minute, Eckhard Kruse claims that time is a completely flexible unit of measurement, an artificial construction that anyone can watch and rewatch as they please.
Director: Eckhard Kruse - 2010 - Germany – 1'
Anamorphic People
Footage of a couple, shot by Fox News cameraman Al Brick, is distorted through lenses and prisms in a delightful interlude of cinematic experiments. The timing of his gaze even distorts time itself. Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Al Brick – 1927, Η.Π.Α. / U.S.A. – 2’
II. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GAZE
Annabelle Butterfly Dance 1
This groundbreaking film, shot before cinema was even invented, depicts the movement of a dancer as she turns into a butterfly before our very eyes.
Director: W.K.L. Dickson, USA - 1'
Papillon d’Amour
Nicolas Provost subjects excerpts from the Akira Kurosawa masterpiece “Rashomon” to a peculiar mirror effect, creating a hallucinatory space where a woman is transformed from chrysalis to butterfly before she finally collapses.
Director: Nicolas Provost – 2003 - Belgium – 4’
III. THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE
Stuck in the Groove
Using Nietzsche’s notion of the “eternal recurrence” as a starting point, Clemens Kogler philosophizes by toying with classic album covers. Thanks to the unique Phonovideo technique, he edits images the same way a DJ mixes sounds.
Director: Clemens Kogler – Austria – 4'
The Hearts of Age
The first short film by the legendary Orson Welles made at the tender age of 19 in collaboration with William Vance. A surrealist fable in which Death is mythologized and mocked thanks to an automatic writing technique, potentially defined by its own return.
Directors: Orson Welles, William Vance – 1934 - U.S.A. – 8’
IV. THE REAPPROPRIATION OF THE FAMILIAR
Family Portrait
Precious family moments, shared memories and old photographs could easily be reinterpreted in a completely different way. A pair of unfamiliar eyes could inflict a radical change on familiar circumstances, reappropriating our home. Director: Joseph Pierce - 2010 - U.K. – 5'
The Fall of the House of Usher
The curse of the Usher family demands that Death start over, which basically means anything is possible. A dialogue-free, avant-garde adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, filmed through a series of prisms to create chaotic visual distortions.
Directors: J.S. Watson, Melville Webber – 1926-28 - U.S.A. - 13’
V. THE VISION OF SOUND
Stars and Stripes
Norman McLaren sketches directly on celluloid with pen and ink, creating a groundbreaking film without the use of a camera, inspired by the star spangled banner. John Philip Sousa’s anthem adds a new dimension to the freeform shapes.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Norman McLaren – 1940, Καναδάς / Canada – 4’
Voice on the Line
A collage of designs and images, made up of 1950s news stories, is built around the transmission of human voice. Telephones, plugs, lines and numbers. Technology is tested and transported, shaping morals through the fear of repetition.
Director: Kelly Sears – 2009 - U.S.A. – 7’
Daybreak Express
The first film by Cinéma Vérité pioneer Donn Alan Pennebaker consists of architectural shots of the soon-to-be-demolished 3rd Avenue train station in New York. Duke Ellington’s music creates a secondary cinematic space, intensifying the visual experience.
Director: D. A. Pennebaker– 1953 - U.S.A. – 5’
VI. THE BODY AS MEMORY
Tantlängtan / Lady Crush
Three lonely people who would rather be someone else, are tormented by all the things they can’t express. When the actors are replaced by animated clay figures, their hidden desires are externalized and memory is recorded as a process of physical liberation.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Hanna Sköld – 2011, Σουηδία / Sweden, – 11’
Gravity
A dozen scenes of famous movie kisses from well-known 1950s romantic dramas lure the eye into an erotic vertigo. In this sensual union of bodies, we recognize the stimulation of memory as it recalls the starting point of existence.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Nicolas Provost – 2007, Βέλγιο / Belgium – 6’
Le Songe d’ Isaac
Dream and memory blend into one as old Isaac reaches the end of his days. His ailing body is released and he regains his childhood vision in order to join his mother in a tender space where words no longer matter.
Σκηνοθεσία/ Director: Ursula Meier – 1994, Βέλγιο / Belgium - 13’
VII. REPLAYING THE MISTAKE
Stahlhelm
France, 1944. A British jeep is ambushed by the Germans and skids off the road. The officer is injured and the young soldier accompanying him tries to fool the enemy. What he sees, however, is not what he ought to see.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Peter King – 2011, Ην. Βασίλειο / U.K. – 4’
Les Barbares
Snapshots of riots from all over the world (including the Athens riots of December 2008) are followed by photographs of politicians ruling the planet. People’s gazes are dominated by images they can no longer control.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Jean Gabriel Périot – 2010 - France – 4’
